As for the People of Mixture [who witness Him] through purity: they think that He manifested precisely in the form of the Veil as a means of honoring it. This constitutes the intermediate, closely aligned station that has been mentioned

As for the People of Turbidness [Ahl al-Kadar]: both spiritual states are entirely veiled from them, and they witness the Essential Meaning [al-Ma'na] merely as one of themselves—a physical human being exactly like them.

And Ibn Hamza said in Kitab al-Tanbih: 'The believers are of three distinct stations: the Commonality ['Awam], the Elite [Khawas], and the Elite of the Elite [Khawas al-Khawas]. As for their commonality, we have already clarified their state, for they must affirm the physical human form while simultaneously denying physical anthropomorphism [nafy al-taswir] from it. As for their elite, it is incumbent upon them to recognize the luminous, non-spatial, internal Form [al-Surah al-Nuraniyyah al-Butayniyyah] as distinct from the localized, spatial manifest form [al-ayniyyah al-zahirah] that appears through physical existence in every age and era, which physical eyes behold in plain sight. Meanwhile, the elite of the elite absolute transcend [yunazzihuna] the Absolute Truth—majestic be His majesty—from all forms,